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Healthy choice for 2019
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The 10 Best Healthy Restaurants in South Florida, 2019

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Healthy choice for 2019
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If you cringe at the thought of eating healthy because it brings up painful childhood memories ingesting Aunt Celeste’s tofu turkey, fear not. Today more than ever, restaurants are turning their focus towards clean, nutritious dining options that will have patrons happily coming back for more.

Luckily, the Magic City is always eager to keep up with the latest culinary trends, meaning there are plenty of nutritious and tasty spots that will instantly erase any previous notions you may have (sorry, Aunt C!)

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AROA Craft Yogurt & Café

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Named after a region in Venezuela, this family-run eatery centers its menu around yogurt made daily on-site. The breakfast menu boasts good-for-you items like the orange bowl with yogurt, orange marmalade, chocolate chips, and coca nibs or the power bircher muesli with yogurt, oats soaked in orange juice, chia, maca, apple, banana, orange, shredded coconut and a super seed blend. For lunch, try the green balance bowls like mung beans and sweet carrot or turmeric cauliflower and tricolor quinoa, both of which come with either yogurt cheese or tahini yogurt dressing. Its yogurt can also be found in some Miami locations like Proper Sausages, Golden Hog, Artisan, and Panther Coffee.

Green balance bowls at AROA Craft Yogurt & Cafe
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Fresh First

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The focus of the menu at Fresh First is 100% free of gluten, peanuts, and genetic modifications. Highlights include nut chili taco, fiesta brown rice, and the sweet potato burger. Also on the menu are daily soups and smoothies with clever names like wistful white, blissful blue, and precious pink. Plus, diners are provided the complete nutritional facts and common allergens in the dishes so they can make a healthy and informed food decision.

Nut chili taco
Fresh First [official photo]

Green Bar & Kitchen

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This Ft. Lauderdale health-focused eatery offers an array of dishes including its much loved BAD (Breakfast All Day) burger housed in a croissant from L’Artisan Vegan Bakers Miami that’s topped with scrambled eggs, hash browns, tempeh bacon and a “secret” sauce.  For something a bit lighter, try the hummingbird salad with power greens, medjool dates, vanilla pickled blueberries, puffed hemp granola, and sweet nectar dressing or one of its many juice cleanses.

BAD (Breakfast All Day) burger
Green Bar & Kitchen [official photo]

Love Life Cafe

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The nutrient dense dishes at this Wynwood eatery help guests focus on healthy food and a healthy planet. Think items like the good karma bowl filled with greens, hummus, avocado, and roasted veggies, a selection of “plant-powered arepas” with chlorophyll, spinach, and chia-infused masa as well as tacos, burritos, pizzas, and bowls — all high on the health and flavor scale.

Pizza without the guilt.
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Plant Miami

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Located inside the Sacred Space in Wynwood, this luxe vegan and raw restaurant offers a menu “inspired by the South Florida landscape,” which includes dishes like coconut corn soup, fennel ceviche with passionfruit leche de tigre, and summer squash lasagne with spinach béchamel, walnut bolognese, and kale pesto. Plus, its desserts like the avocado lime tart and chocolate pineapple cake won’t have anyone missing dairy.

Plant Miami inside Sacred Space in Wynwood.
Plant Miami [official photo]

This stunning Miami Beach restaurant offers one of the city’s best views and elegant cuisine highlighting Japanese, Peruvian, and French flavors. There are plenty of dishes to choose from that are also good-for-you, among them the vegetable tiradito stands out. A compilation of zucchini, beets, coconut, and salad, it is cooked sous-vide style without any oils. Added bonus: the tiradito is topped with dry miso and a spritz of lime making the whole dish pop.

Healthy options with a view.
Juvia [official photo]

Lolo's Surf Cantina

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For those in the mood for Mexican that won’t add to the waistline head to Lolo’s Surf Cantina. Opt for items like the roasted cauliflower tacos, the hamachi ceviche or the vegetarian stew made with a pumpkin seed sauce — just make sure not to fill up on chips and salsa and counteract all that healthy eating.

A healthy start with cauliflower tacos.
Lolo’s Surf Cantina [official photo]

Azabu Miami Beach

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Believe it or not, the avocado just got healthier at this Michelin-starred Japanese NYC import. Its grilled avocado topped with a generous portion of uni (sea urchin roe) offers creamy and umami filled experience. Follow that with fluke carpaccio, served with sesame powder, shiso emulsion, and white ponzu and a vegetarian roll, with cucumber, avocado, asparagus, pickled burdock roots, and shiitake mushroom, for a healthy yet flavor-filled meal.

Avocado just got healthier.
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Planta South Beach

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Hospitality king David Grutman’s vegan restaurant Planta has proved to South Florida that healthy eating doesn’t mean guests have to sacrifice flavor or ambiance. Think savory dishes like the Thai noodle salad, which is gluten free and served with green papaya, cucumber, mango, tofu, and shiitake mushrooms, watermelon poke, coconut ceviche, and the Planta burger, which is a favorite amongst carnivores and non-carnivores alike.

Gluten-free Thai noodle salad.
Planta [official photo]

This clean-eating, counter-service, mini-chain has quickly expanded amongst the Magic City and for good reason. Offering something for everyone, dine on breakfast items like the clean bowl made with egg whites, avocado, sweet potato, and turkey sausage or the matcha-protein pancakes served with bananas, coconut, strawberries, and agave-berry coulis. Lunch covers the health gamut from salads, to bowls like the Indian-inspired Bombay bowl, to the spaghetti squash alfredo made with cashew-almond alfredo sauce, and the quinoa-crusted salmon po’ boy.

Clean eating at DIRT
DIRT [Facebook]

AROA Craft Yogurt & Café

Named after a region in Venezuela, this family-run eatery centers its menu around yogurt made daily on-site. The breakfast menu boasts good-for-you items like the orange bowl with yogurt, orange marmalade, chocolate chips, and coca nibs or the power bircher muesli with yogurt, oats soaked in orange juice, chia, maca, apple, banana, orange, shredded coconut and a super seed blend. For lunch, try the green balance bowls like mung beans and sweet carrot or turmeric cauliflower and tricolor quinoa, both of which come with either yogurt cheese or tahini yogurt dressing. Its yogurt can also be found in some Miami locations like Proper Sausages, Golden Hog, Artisan, and Panther Coffee.

Green balance bowls at AROA Craft Yogurt & Cafe
Alona Abbady Martinez

Fresh First

The focus of the menu at Fresh First is 100% free of gluten, peanuts, and genetic modifications. Highlights include nut chili taco, fiesta brown rice, and the sweet potato burger. Also on the menu are daily soups and smoothies with clever names like wistful white, blissful blue, and precious pink. Plus, diners are provided the complete nutritional facts and common allergens in the dishes so they can make a healthy and informed food decision.

Nut chili taco
Fresh First [official photo]

Green Bar & Kitchen

This Ft. Lauderdale health-focused eatery offers an array of dishes including its much loved BAD (Breakfast All Day) burger housed in a croissant from L’Artisan Vegan Bakers Miami that’s topped with scrambled eggs, hash browns, tempeh bacon and a “secret” sauce.  For something a bit lighter, try the hummingbird salad with power greens, medjool dates, vanilla pickled blueberries, puffed hemp granola, and sweet nectar dressing or one of its many juice cleanses.

BAD (Breakfast All Day) burger
Green Bar & Kitchen [official photo]

Love Life Cafe

The nutrient dense dishes at this Wynwood eatery help guests focus on healthy food and a healthy planet. Think items like the good karma bowl filled with greens, hummus, avocado, and roasted veggies, a selection of “plant-powered arepas” with chlorophyll, spinach, and chia-infused masa as well as tacos, burritos, pizzas, and bowls — all high on the health and flavor scale.

Pizza without the guilt.
Love Life Cafe [Facebook]

Plant Miami

Located inside the Sacred Space in Wynwood, this luxe vegan and raw restaurant offers a menu “inspired by the South Florida landscape,” which includes dishes like coconut corn soup, fennel ceviche with passionfruit leche de tigre, and summer squash lasagne with spinach béchamel, walnut bolognese, and kale pesto. Plus, its desserts like the avocado lime tart and chocolate pineapple cake won’t have anyone missing dairy.

Plant Miami inside Sacred Space in Wynwood.
Plant Miami [official photo]

Juvia

This stunning Miami Beach restaurant offers one of the city’s best views and elegant cuisine highlighting Japanese, Peruvian, and French flavors. There are plenty of dishes to choose from that are also good-for-you, among them the vegetable tiradito stands out. A compilation of zucchini, beets, coconut, and salad, it is cooked sous-vide style without any oils. Added bonus: the tiradito is topped with dry miso and a spritz of lime making the whole dish pop.

Healthy options with a view.
Juvia [official photo]

Lolo's Surf Cantina

For those in the mood for Mexican that won’t add to the waistline head to Lolo’s Surf Cantina. Opt for items like the roasted cauliflower tacos, the hamachi ceviche or the vegetarian stew made with a pumpkin seed sauce — just make sure not to fill up on chips and salsa and counteract all that healthy eating.

A healthy start with cauliflower tacos.
Lolo’s Surf Cantina [official photo]

Azabu Miami Beach

Believe it or not, the avocado just got healthier at this Michelin-starred Japanese NYC import. Its grilled avocado topped with a generous portion of uni (sea urchin roe) offers creamy and umami filled experience. Follow that with fluke carpaccio, served with sesame powder, shiso emulsion, and white ponzu and a vegetarian roll, with cucumber, avocado, asparagus, pickled burdock roots, and shiitake mushroom, for a healthy yet flavor-filled meal.

Avocado just got healthier.
Deep Sea Studio

Planta South Beach

Hospitality king David Grutman’s vegan restaurant Planta has proved to South Florida that healthy eating doesn’t mean guests have to sacrifice flavor or ambiance. Think savory dishes like the Thai noodle salad, which is gluten free and served with green papaya, cucumber, mango, tofu, and shiitake mushrooms, watermelon poke, coconut ceviche, and the Planta burger, which is a favorite amongst carnivores and non-carnivores alike.

Gluten-free Thai noodle salad.
Planta [official photo]

DIRT

This clean-eating, counter-service, mini-chain has quickly expanded amongst the Magic City and for good reason. Offering something for everyone, dine on breakfast items like the clean bowl made with egg whites, avocado, sweet potato, and turkey sausage or the matcha-protein pancakes served with bananas, coconut, strawberries, and agave-berry coulis. Lunch covers the health gamut from salads, to bowls like the Indian-inspired Bombay bowl, to the spaghetti squash alfredo made with cashew-almond alfredo sauce, and the quinoa-crusted salmon po’ boy.

Clean eating at DIRT
DIRT [Facebook]

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